Biochar Market is expected to grow at a moderate rate during the forecast period 2019-2025. Biochar is a kind of charcoal that presents considerable opportunities in augmenting crop growth, preventing carbon emissions caused by climate change and remediating contaminated soil. It is also referred by the names agrichar and black carbon. It can be produced from several feedstocks, such as agricultural wastes, bagasse, rice husks, animal manures, paper products, and urban green waste. The major potential application of biochar includes improving soil fertility that results in increasing crop yields from formerly degraded soils. Other important applications of biochar include energy production, agriculture, and livestock, water treatment and horticulture. The production systems range from housing cookstoves to industrial pyrolysis plants as it can be produced over a broad range of temperatures and could be employed to various soil types.

The crucial factors lead to propel the demand for biochar include increasing focus on management of soil-borne diseases in various crops and emerging demand for sustainable organic farming. All gardens have various permanent soil-borne disease organisms. The soil-borne diseases in the garden comprise root rot, such as Phytophthora, pre and post-emergence damping off, such as Pythium, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia species. In addition, the fungi causing nematodes and verticillium also infect the plant through its root system. The biochar soil amendment has been observed to affect the disease progression caused by soil-borne plant pathogens. These soil-borne diseases cause significant agricultural crop losses every year. Hence, it is one of the major farm management concerns faced by farmers across the globe. Agricultural chemicals are most commonly used to manage the soil-borne disease. However, it has several disadvantages, such as risks to human health and the surrounding environment. Thus, the application of biochar to soil has been demonstrated the effectiveness to suppress plant disease that is resulted due to foliar and soil-borne pathogens. The use of biochar as soil amendments could offer several benefits such as soil amelioration, carbon sequestration and improvement in crop yields. This alters pathogen growth, survival, and availability and induces systemic plant defense mechanism. As a result, biochar plays a vital role in the management of soil-borne disease, which in turn, is fuelling the growth of the market.

The global biochar market is segmented on the basis of technology, application, and feedstock. Based on technology, the market is further classified into pyrolysis and gasification. The basic process of producing biochar involves pyrolysis which signifies breaking down of a material by heat. Pyrolysis systems utilize retorts and kilns and other specialized equipment. Pyrolysis gases are usually referred to as syngas. There are two kinds of pyrolysis systems namely slow pyrolysis and fast pyrolysis. Fast pyrolysis enables to produce more liquids and oils whereas slow pyrolysis produces more syngas. Based on application, the market is further classified into energy production, agriculture and livestock, soil and water treatment and others. Based on feedstock, the market is further classified into agricultural wastes, rice husks, bagasse, paper products, animal manures, and others.

Geographically, the market is segmented into four major regions, including North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of the world. North American biochar market has been primarily driven by increasing demands for biomass-derived sources for electricity generation and improving soil fertility and crop yield. Moreover, Asia-Pacific is expected to witness potential growth due to cohesive government regulations to reduce Co2 emission and increasing demand for sustainable organic farming in the region.

The companies involved in the production of biochar include ETIA S.A.S., SynTech Bioenergy, LLC, Vega Biofuels, Inc., Tolero Energy, LLC, and Pacific Biochar Benefit Corp. These companies adopted various strategies to be competitive in the market. This includes product launches, merger and acquisitions, geographical expansion, and partnership and collaborations. For instance, in July 2017, SynTech Bioenergy, LLC declared the establishment of its Japanese distributorship in Tokyo, Japan which named SynTech Japan Co, LTD. This new distributorship is intended to support local installations of the company’s technology to deliver clean energy with waste materials and the advanced biomass thermal conversion. The company’s BioMax systems are based on proprietary combined heat and power (CHP) and small-scale downdraft gasification. BioMax biochar also fulfills standards for activated carbons for use in water and air filtration. The systems are completely automated and proven as well as can be remotely operated and controlled.  According to the company, Syntech biomass energy systems are perfectly suitable to meet the energy needs of Japan.

Research Methodology

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Market Segmentation

Global biochar market is segmented on the basis of regional outlook and following segments:

1. Global Biochar Market Research and Analysis by Technology
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3. Global Biochar Market Research and Analysis by Feedstock
4. Global Biochar Market Research and Analysis by Region

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